skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This study "followed 1792 Australian high school students aged 15 in 1992". I lived in Sydney 1992-4 and saw very little weed smoking. Legal status may not be stopping anybody now, but perhaps it was different then?

Certainly here in California, legality makes a significant difference. Previously, my weed-smoking friends would have to have a connection to a drug dealer, and it was not what you'd call a convenient commercial experience. It's a different thing now that there are a variety of cheerful, brightly lit shops that anybody can just walk into.

One obvious way that makes a difference to a study like this, which measures use of other illegal drugs, is that marijuana shops just sell marijuana, whereas I'm given to understand that drug dealers can connect their customers to a variety of stuff.
For those wondering why the sub went private for a time:

> We have grown to the kind of size we only dreamed of in the time it takes to get a bad nights sleep. We've got so many comments and submissions that we can't possibly even read them all, let alone act on them as moderators. We wrote software to do most of the moderation for us but that software isn't allowed to read the Reddit new feed fast enough and submit responses, and the admins haven't given us special access despite asking for it.

-- https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6j4r9/wher...
DNA taken from corpse of unknown person 1940 (2013)
I like to think about it from the perspective of continuous time, which is approximated by having #bins = #pixels. The approach relies on having fine-grained bins, since they make error arising from the relationship between binning and the sampling frequency much less significant.

Imagine a point moving along the curve, depositing a constant amount of density/ink onto the canvas per unit of time. When the point is moving quickly it deposits less density, and when the point is moving slowly then it deposits more, since the density deposited per time unit is constant and the point traverses less space when it moves slowly.

You can think of each vertical strip of bins as representing a unit of time. The discrete approximation to arc-length normalization means, for each time series, making sure that it contributes a single unit of density per vertical strip: if a curve goes through one bin in that strip, then that bin has its density increased by 1. If it goes through 3 bins, then the density in each is increased by 1/3.
"Ch*nk flu" is clear racial slur. The rest of list is based on stereotypes of Chinese people. The key thing is that regular Chinese people aren't even responsible for the virus or the censorship (the censorship was done by Biden, a noted non-Chinese person), so targeting them seems misplaced and clearly racist.

> It is part for the course of what I see on the site.

Well yes, if a site is full of racism, a comment with racism in it is "par for the course".

Edit: To reply to your second paragraph that you added after I posted my comment:

Yes, I understand where they're coming from, and that they feel like US is under attack. However, it should obvious to anyone that China isn't governed by the average Chinese person; it's governed by the CCP. By choosing to insult and make fun of the average Chinese person, they're clearly engaging in mean-spirited racism (which has lead to increased racial violence against Asians), and that has to be condemned as the racism it is.
This sounds like some kind of market failure. Perhaps we need fewer EV charging networks with random unattended parking-lot terminals; and more independent, non-network EV chargers, built into gas-station-like operations, with individual owner-operators who are very concerned with ensuring you can pay them money.
No. It's a lot more complicated than you buy a call option and the brokerage buys 100 shares immediately.
Tesla's 8-K
Going over the background of who did the study, the abstract, and their assertions, it appears they've made the classic mistake of correlation = causation. Nothing in their study supports their assertion of a casual link.

Based on their alarmist and projective tone, they probably made this error on purpose in order to push an agenda for their own benefit. The fact that Rupert Murdoch's disreputable name is attached is only 1 of numerous red flags. Disappointing.

Title of Article: Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use

Original Paper: Young-adult compared to adolescent onset of regular cannabis use: A 20-year prospective cohort study of later consequences

Lead Author Dr Gary Chan, excerpt from Bio: "Dr. Gary Chan is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research. His principal research interest lies in the field of substance misuse prevention and the application of cutting-edge statistical method for longitudinal analysis and causal inference."

Methods: "A state-representative sample in Victoria, Australia (n = 1792) participated in a 10-wave longitudinal study and was followed from age 15 to 35 years. Exposure variable: Patterns of cannabis use across 20-years. Outcomes at age 35: Alcohol use, smoking, illicit drug use, relationship status, financial hardship, depression, anxiety and employment status."

Results: "Substantially more participants (13.6%) initiated regular use after high school (young-adult onset) than in adolescence (7.7%, adolescent onset). By the mid-30s, both young-adult and adolescent-onset regular users were more likely than minimal/non-users (63.5%) to have used other illicit drugs (odds ratio [OR] > 20.4), be a high-risk alcohol drinker (OR > 3.7), smoked daily (OR > 7.2) and less likely to be in relationships (OR < 0.4). As the prevalence of the young-adult-onset group was nearly double of the adolescent-onset group, it accounted for a higher proportion of adverse consequences than the adolescent-onset group"

Dr Chan says: "Overall, regular use of cannabis – more than weekly and especially daily use – was found to have harmful consequences, regardless of the age people began using it."

"The study was conducted in collaboration with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne."
Are you happy to work here?

Not asking if they're happy with their life/job/etc, but whether or not they find value in the work they do. What the nature of that value is should be in the answer. And the answer will invariably touch upon a lot more than job satisfaction, so you don't have to ask so many questions if your time is limited. Doesn't always work on the phone (I find people are often guarded and overcompensating), but in person this question can be disarming and quite revelatory.
I dont think GPL forces anyone to contribute upstream. I am asking about the idea of freedom the end user enjoys with GPL code.
Does sspl build on it, give more freedom to end user or restrict that freedom.
If it gives more freedom, isnt that a good thing ? Why should people be up with pitchforks ?
The “induced demand“ case against YIMBYism is wrong
> If those things worked, this would be a point. Currently people can’t even afford to go to medical school, or afford to see a doctor, and when they get past the gatekeepers they are so desparate to get treatment that they can’t really even fathom rejecting a doctor because of a poor bedside manner.

Other countries with socialized health care systems (i.e. doctor credential gatekeeping) do not have these issues (certainly not to anything like the extent that we do). I suspect therefore that changing the credentialling process is unlikely to have much impact on these issues and/or is not the most effective way to impact these issues.

> Anyone who wants a good physician.

I'm 57 years old. I've never, ever met anyone who isn't a libertarian nerd (I have friends ...) that checks to see what medical school a physician attended. If they are "checking" at something approximating that level, they do so via clinical affiliation (e.g. "anyone at the Mayo has to be great").

> Since we already deal with “who watches the watchers” problems in our current system, I see no problem here.

Not really. The "watchers" in our current system are government agencies, not private (potentially for-profit, or at least for-big-salary) corporations. The incentives align in significantly different ways.
Right, the client->compositor buffer is shared.

But unless you are running a full screen app, at some point compositor will have to take all those pixels from the window's backing buffer and blit them into framebuffer, moving millions of pixels every frame.

This is something that really needs video acceleration. It works today, but it would not be feasible in the past, where some people still had to rely on VESA card interfaces.
It wasn't simply out of fear. Sure, that may have motivated some people as the Nazis grew in power, but the phenomenon of humans viewing their outgroup as less than human is not unique to 1940s Germany. It has played out over and over in human history. Take the Aztecs, for example, who built pyramids for human sacrifice of lower tribal members. Or the Romans and their coloseums where they'd toss captured slaves in to fight to their death. It's really seen throughout human history and people do it with delight, even, if they are convinced that the others deserve it or that the outgroup is bad enough to warrant it.

Yes, humans do follow their biases and those tendencies are exploitable by sociopaths in positions of authority. That's the scary bit, to me, and that's what the experiment shows.
Why is it ridiculous? The government didn't set up petrol stations - they were always private everywhere on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station#History

The entire EV market is already propped by governments and this has taken us to a place of extremely heavy, extremely battery-heavy, performance-oriented vehicles. That is the complete opposite of what an EV vehicle that is good for the environment would be. We should not be incentivizing this further by encouraging government to now subsidize a charging network.
The Importance of Building Better Habits
I've been programming for 30+ years. I still have less than 5 years of experience in anything that's currently popular.
So you're trading object with closures?

The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to

prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that
objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at
his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's
closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell,

intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The
Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small
Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and
looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by

saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand
that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting
Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's
object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

From https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
All of the people that I know that have used hard drugs also use cannabis. The opposite is not true at all, though.

Living where weed is legal, I know dozens of people who regularly smoke weed and do no other hard drugs.

Some of them are health nuts who don't even use caffeine or alcohol. (Caffeine and alcohol are proven to cause more bodily harm than cannabis at any dosage)

With few exceptions, the entire population of weed smokers that I know have successful careers, are social, and have good family lives.

There's some anecdotes for you.
You obviously know nothing about the folks at wallstreetbets. It's not just a bunch of random people doing pump and dumps. Their methods and DD might be questionable at times but they base them on something and at times try to stick to that thesis.
like this? https://iterm2.com/documentation-csiu.html
'“While we’re waiting for the next supernova [in our galaxy], we have a lot of work to do. We need to improve the theoretical modeling to understand what features we could detect,” said Irene Tamborra'

I'm mildly amused by someone with the surname "Tamborra" who's anticipating a stupendous explosion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora
hate speech as in "f*ck these dumbass hedge funds trying to bankrupt Gamestop and make thousands of people lose their jobs?"

Is that hate speech now?
holding a hedged portfolio (with shorts) is less risky than a long only portfolio in the vast majority of cases.

Moreover some asset that is risky on it's own can decrease the risk of the entire portfolio. From a quantitative perspective, specific risk from an asset is largely irrelevant (and doesnt carry a risk premium), because it can be diversified away to 0
There’s Simply Nothing Wrong with Microsoft
Yup. And if one of the servers is on a public IP then no other servers generally needed
I'm not sure 4 the lulz nihilists has enough capitol to do big movements. WSB jokes around about 4chan style investing, but the bulk of the people who keep up in there aren't 4chan people.
One peculiar thing I don't think this study accounts for is the general climate around marijuana use in 1992 compared to now. For example, the stigma of being a "druggie", before it become more widely accepted in the recent years, could definitely lend itself to users building that identity around themselves. After building this identity that could further their likelihood of aligning with other "illicit" activities. TLDR not sold on this study.
I’m not a cannabis user. The conclusions may be correct but the report doesn’t separate causation from correlation. Murders are correlated with ice cream sales. Murders don’t make people binge on Baskin Robbins. Heat waves cause both to spike.
It depends on the person. Alcohol triples my anxiety, while it has the opposite effect on my roommate.

For me, the only non-medical stress reliever is reading light novels or even trash novels. For some weird reason, the shallow narrative style plus corny plots take my mind away from reality.
I’d much rather use THC/CBD than benzos. Look ‘em up and the withdrawal symptoms for each.
I know people that don't have those tough backgrounds. They've smoked a lot and now in their late 60s. Mostly successful people and maybe it's just old age but they have signs of significant cognitive decline. Is an anecdote not data but it scares the crap out of me.
My favorite theory is that people who use drugs demonstrate: 1) much more openness and 2) much less conscientiousness (in the form of breaking the law, being rebellious, etc). than average.

Drug use itself may harm, esp harder drugs, but drug use almost certainly correlates with the kind of decision making that would lead to things like hard drinking, relationship problems, and work problems in moderately severe cases.
A typical wildfire is not putting much of its overall energy output into bringing fuel up to combustion temperature, though. The combustion energy in a kilo of wood is measured in megajoules; the amount of energy needed to elevate the temperature of a kilo of wood by a degree is measured in kilojoules. So while you're right that the energy budget needed to combust new fuel goes up by 40% or so if the fuel is at -50°C, the energy budget going into that is only a percent or so fo the total energy the wildfire is putting out. The rest of the energy beyond what's needed to bring fuel up to combustion point is going into making massive walls of glowing flames, mile-high convection columns of air, sending smoke thousands of miles, etc., etc...

That is, in many ways, precisely what makes it a wildfire, rather than a smouldering ember.

In the limit - when a fire is dying out - then I guess, for sure, changing the fuel temperature can sap a larger part of the energy budget.
Just within the last 7-10 days or so, I added a task to my "to-do" list to upgrade my personal account to GitLab's lowest cost ($48/year) tier.

I don't actually need any of the features from that tier but I absolutely do* get value from my (personal) use of GitLab (mostly centered around / related to my fairly extensive home lab) and wanted to support the company. I'm not aware of any way to make a donation so I decided I'd just pay the $48/year to upgrade my account as an alternative.

I've been working on a (personal, "offline") project for about the last week and a half -- meaning so I've not been sitting at my workstation during that time -- or else I almost certainly would have just upgraded to the now defunct bronze/starter plan.

Maybe I'll just buy some extra CI/CD minutes (which I don't use) or something similar as a way to show support for the company by giving them a few dollars.
Sorry, I did not mean to imply anything about temporality (i.e. that short selling was "new" in terms of starting significantly after stock trading).

My point was almost consonant with yours - it's almost as old as stock trading, but nobody realized how fundamentally different the concept is. They didn't realize it in 1609, and they certainly don't recognize it now.

Most naive conceptions of how stock markets work would never allow for these sorts of contracts. The fact that they've (nearly) always been a part of actual stock markets just points to the same sort of gaps between the actual operation of the financial services industry and how most people think things ought to be that the current GME gyrations are (according to some) also pointing at.
Do you have any sources for this? I am interested in learning more
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935771.
Is that what was written there? Discord and the WSB team seem to think it was more serious
What I have read about the harm in regular cannabis use is related to how society has demonized it. It speaks nothing about the actual harms that Cannabis can have. Additionally if that is all the harm; fucking legalize it.

Gutless cowards
Are you memeing right now?
Also fun, Australian company "GME Resources", trade on the ASX as GME, got to 40% up from its Monday opening price.

I wonder if this is a clever-ish social media algorithm trading, shrewd fund managers or really just desperately mistaken retail traders.
Let me put it like this. The Romans would never have allowed this. Arab marketplaces? I'm not sure.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919494

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919360

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235
god just logout. why did we let people like you on the internet?
If you tell rust to do silly things it will still do silly things. The “fix” for this is less complexity, like doas. Sudo is a ridiculously complex program
I work at a fintech company, and you have heard of us.
Be forewarned. My company is "woke" and gives you `sudo` access on your mac. However, this mac is useless. The firewall rules prevent us from running a local kubernetes cluster, and most open source software is iffy on it because of JAMF. `root` is not enough. I want control over my workstation. I refuse to give it up just because IT is worried about some people who watch porn on office laptops. I am not those people, stop penalizing power users just because others flaunt your rules or are unable to grok them.

Edit: I'd kill to join a company that says BYOD and you can use Linux (any flavour).
My Note 4 had fast charge with micro-usb
They're more or less standardized. There's different networks and plug systems but there's some federation of maps and you can pay with credit card at most.

Compared with Tesla, in the US there's just way less chargers of two kinds for other EV owners: fast chargers (which are mostly useful as long-ish pit stops for long road trips), and destination chargers (things you can plug in overnight at your hotel or wherever it is you're sleeping.

There's plenty of slow chargers (so called level 2) in downtown areas but those barely give you a courtesy charge. You'd have to stay plugged in overnight to get any meaningful range out of those, but they tend not to be located where you sleep.

Add to that the fact that whatever stations there are tend to be unreliable, and taking even a 200 mile road trip carries its lot of unwelcome surprises.

My understanding is that in Europe Tesla is on a path to join the other cars' standard because the situation is reverse. My hope is that in the US long term as well, they will be forced to join forces (realizing that I might as well hope for Apple to join the USB charger bandwagon for their phones)
I smoke enough to at least bring the averages up for the rest of y'all.
Irish Potato Farming in Nigeria
You're incorrect, nobody can go around shorting stocks like crazy. First one need to borrow the stock, which may be difficult for some stocks. This creates a concrete imbalance between long and short holders and a limit for how much can be sold short. But that's not the whole problem, every short stock needs to be covered by some margin. If the stock goes up too much, the short seller needs to buy it back no matter water, for lack of margin. In other words, it is NOT just the buyers who are forcing the price up, but the short sellers who are forced to cover their shorts. That's why it doesn't matter that the price is insane, it will go up as long as the shorts are forced to buy back the stock at those ridiculous prices.
Ok not related, I wonder how much paper we could save by showing (by default) a print preview. 1.7m trees? Profit for humanity...
Right, risk plays into it, but the loan the bank creates is an asset, (a liability for the bloke that has to pay it back in the future) - If I can sell that loan to someone else great, I just have to make it look low risk. But whether or not I sell the contract/loan off, I do have an asset that I didn't have before. It may not be a dollar from the Fed, but it's worth a dollar as long as the risk is low.
Scientists publish a blueprint to apply AI to extend human longevity
go back to wherever you came from and leave the internet to the rest of us. you’re ruining it.
One's opinion is driven by everyone else's sentiment. Seeing literally everyone post "HOLD THE LINE" and "BUY THE DIP" and "TO THE MOON" will make you do the same.

If you don't see this, then you don't know if these people are still your allies.
Honestly, their PWA support has always sucked. It lacked extension support, Share Target API support, and the installed apps didn't appear in the "Remove Programs" UI on Windows. Edge does a MUCH better job, and so does Chrome on Android. Even Safari has a better PWA experience. This looks like Mozilla in a death spiral to me. You had a good run Firefox!
Epistemological hygeine. It encourages people to be more careful about ensuring that they understand the degree to which a particular evidence complex supports a belief, and awareness of the corresponding possibility that the evidence is an artifact of a biased sample.
Please stop spreading misinformation, the capital riot was primarily organized on Facebook.
The bank has to buy the cows right away? I thought when the redditor buys the call someone else, let's say Bob, sells the call. If Bob already owns 100 cows (covered calls), then no one will be forced to buy cows ever. If Bob doesn't own 100 cows (naked calls), Bob will have to buy 100 cows at the end of the month if the call is in the money, not right away.
Let’s just be honest - anyone can sue anybody, but you’re probably not going to have problems under the ADA unless you become visible for some reason (success, expressing the wrong thoughts loudly, service necessity for a community, etc).